sonic team . ideas proposed to flesh out the character included placing him in a rock band , giving him vampire fangs , and giving him a human girlfriend named madonna , but sega of america scrapped these ideas to keep his identity simple . sega of america also expressed concerns that most americans would not know what a hedge ##hog is and initially proposed a full @ - @ scale recreation of the character , but compromised with sonic team to simply make design changes . the antagonist ended up being named " dr . egg ##man " in japan and " dr . robot ##nik " in other regions as a result of a dispute between sega ' s american and japanese divisions . = =
sonic team. ideas proposed to flesh out the character included placing him in a rock band, giving him vampire fangs, and giving him a human girlfriend named madonna, but sega of america scrapped these ideas to keep his identity simple. sega of america also expressed concerns that most americans would not know what a hedgehog is and initially proposed a full @ - @ scale recreation of the character, but compromised with sonic team to simply make design changes. the antagonist ended up being named " dr. eggman " in japan and " dr. robotnik " in other regions as a result of a dispute between sega's american and japanese divisions. = =